O-LevelEnglish LanguageReading for Meaning1123/21 · Oct/Nov 2017 · Q46 Marks

From Paragraph 1

(a)Aoife can't read. How does she feel about the ‘printed word'?[1]
(b)If Aoife could read, how would she get to her apartment?[1]
(c)The letters would have shifted with 'sickening suddenness'. Explain in your own words what this means.[2]
(d)Explain how Aoife led a 'double life'.[1]
(e)From which group of people in her life was Aoife most anxious to keep her secret?[1]

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (Oct/Nov 2017). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

4(a) [1] It was dangerous / not to be trusted (Allowed Responses: Lift of 'the printed word was dangerous and not to be trusted' =1; It was harmful; Answers which reflect her response to danger / lack of trust, e.g. she was scared / suspicious / unsure)
4(b) [1] (by / she would take / use the) elevator / lift
4(c) [1] SICKENING: nauseating / it made her ill / revolting / ghastly / dreadful/horrible/ awful / terrible (Allowed Responses: Agonising / painful)
4(c) [1] SUDDENNESS: quickness / speed / immediacy / abruptness / instantly / instantaneously / at once/ in a flash/ in a second / (Allowed Responses: out of the blue / right before her eyes / out of nowhere / in the blink of an eye / without warning)
4(d) [1] she pretended to be able to read (but couldn't) // she didn't tell / let people know she couldn't read // people thought she could read but (secretly) she couldn't // by guarding the secret that she could not read (Allowed Responses: 'dyslexic' for 'difficulties reading / could not read'; Lift of line 6 'she could not...truth'; She made people think she could read)
4(e) [1] her family

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